Quotes on Perfect Happiness

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.